DookieMeisterRN

DookieMeisterRN

Cardiac, PCU, Surg/Onc, LTC, Peds

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About DookieMeisterRN

DookieMeisterRN specializes in Cardiac, PCU, Surg/Onc, LTC, Peds.


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  1. Bedside Shift Report

  2. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    1. Oregon 2. 6 years 3. Cardiac, Magnet hospital 4. 42.25 5. Nights 5.30, weekends + $2.00 6. Union
  3. Question about license by endorsement

    Sounds like you went to Excelsior College. If you want to work in Georgia I think you have to jump through those extra hoops. Washington State is the same way and California would not let an Excelsior grad work in their state regardless of the RN's e...
  4. What exactly do physicians do again?

    Like previous others have said, there are ACLS protocols to allow drugs to be administered. I've worked in many hospitals from a small community critical access to large university and have never seen mandatory physician attendance to a rapid respon...
  5. Wound vac question/vent

    I have seen vacs placed over sutures before. It sounds like this is not your typical patient and that other measures have failed in the past but it used to be that wound vacs were contraindicated for osteomyelitis. But there are atypical cases like t...
  6. Med order question -giving Roxanol to someone who is dying

    The DON of this facility obviously needs a current course in hospice and what the hospice orders mean. What you did is what I presume to be common nursing practice. Unless it specifically stated do not give prn dose within a certain time frame of the...
  7. Licensure by endorsement processing time?

    Unfortunately RN endorsement is a tad more complicated process than CNA. I'm sure it wouldn't take 2 months for a CNA endorsement!
  8. vocera equipment

    Do you have a unit secretary? Our CN has a sign out sheet and a basket with voceras, tele pagers near the daily assignment sheet. The tele pagers are assigned by number and faxed to the monitor techs and the # of the pager is written on the assignmen...
  9. How safe are these practices? Help, new grad RN in LTC

    1) I can't believe it's ethical to call the evening shift nurse a liar about the blood sugar and amount of insulin she gave. YOU should have called the MD for the CBG >400 that YOU checked on YOUR shift and just reported objective facts about the...
  10. Good "Brain Food" for Concentration during shifts

    There IS always time to use the bathroom (I hope you also take all your breaks too). Don't dehydrate yourself b/c you 'think' you're too busy to pee. You aren't. You also aren't going to be doing anyone any favors by being found passed out, withered...
  11. Transfer advice please

    Ask to shadow in departments you're interested in. Honestly though, in my neck of the woods it's almost impossible to get into a specialty besides M/S without a good 2 years of experience. Only YOU truly knows what would best fit your interests ,whi...
  12. Remember why you became a nurse...

    Oh no, another student who is never going to have to vent because she poops sunshine and vomits rainbows. And she will never, ever be like one of us. Why is it that some people think they're so unique and special? Just because I don't go spewing out ...
  13. Sorry Nurse Recruiters/Nurse Managers!

    Unfortunately your situation is NOT unique. It's too bad the nursing programs aren't being more factual about job prospects for new grads. It's too bad future grads didn't research their chosen career BEFORE starting school than they wouldn't be broa...
  14. Most ridiculous things you have heard?

    [color=#cc3300]isn't that the truth! we have slang in different parts of the us that not everyone in our own country understands. in certain parts of the country, a "spoon" could be a "redneck", and we do discuss "teeth to tattoo ratio" a fair bit...
  15. Most ridiculous things you have heard?

    Oh I'm pretty sure our NM never checked the credentials of this "specialist" she always wanted the cases that would make her look like NM of the year at the cost of her employees. It's funny after I transferred 6 other RN's left within 3 months and t...